View the winning essays and poems from the Elementary School, High School and College divisions. Elementary School Division 1st Prize Rachel Bicky – 7th Grade, Ramaz Middle School 2nd Prize Isabelle Nunberg – 7th Grade, Ramaz Middle School 3rd Prize Jeremy Rubenstein – 7th Grade, EMEK Hebrew Acadamy – Teichman Family Torah Center 1 Honorable […]

There have been numerous articles written about John Kerry and the Jews. The problem is, it’s not about just one person — John Kerry or anybody else. It’s about John Kerry, the Democratic party, Europe, and the Jews. For many Jews, or at least those Jews for whom Israel’s security is paramount, the alarm bells […]

Leading American weekly magazine The Nation has adopted a new policy of refusing to accept advertisements from Holocaust-deniers. In response to a complaint by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, leading American weekly magazine The Nation has adopted a new policy of refusing to accept advertisements from Holocaust-deniers. Wyman Institute director Dr. Rafael […]

With Prime Minister Sharon`s now planned unilateral disengagement from Gaza, Israel would openly reward Palestinian terrorism and simultaneously begin to codify its own incremental disappearance. In large measure, such a perilous withdrawal would have its origins in Israel`s persistent failure to challenge prevailing media characterizations of Judea, Samaria and Gaza as “occupied.” Indeed, ever since […]

Almost thirty years ago, a young Jerusalem high school teacher lent a hot-steam vaporizer to a neighbor with a sick child. Others asked to borrow the device too, and the teacher – Uri Lupolianski – purchased additional vaporizers geared for lending purposes to the large families in his neighborhood. Today, Yad Sarah – the organization […]

Housing purchases in the Golan Heights will have quintupled over the past three years, according to official estimates. The Golan Regional Council reports that the housing campaign entitled, “Connecting to the Dream,” which began this week, has already shown great success. Hundreds of phone calls have been received so far, and some 450 new families […]

A day after Israeli troops killed its second leader within a single month, the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas put on a brave face. The Israelis “are dreaming” if they think this would weaken Hamas, announced Ismail Haniyeh to a crowd of over 70,000 mourners at the funeral for Abdel Aziz Rantisi. “Every time a martyr […]

It’s being called a “historic declaration,” but many Israelis can’t understand what’s so historic about it. U.S. President Bush provided a letter with rehashed promises and words, while Israel is to expel Jews and expose itself to increasing terrorism – which Palestinian terrorists immediately promised. It’s being called a “historic declaration,” but many Israelis can’t […]

The Jewish Agency has launched an initiative which will allocate subsistence grants to members of the Israeli Olympic Team to Athens who have recently immigrated to Israel from the Former Soviet Union and Ethiopia. The purpose of the grant is to allow new immigrant athletes to fully concentrate on training for the Athens Olympics instead […]

On March 22, 2004 Sheikh ‘Atiyyah Saqr, former head of the Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee who in the past issued a Fatwa declaring Jews “apes and pigs,” [1] was asked the following question this week in an online chat room: “What, according to the Qur’an, are the Jews’ main characteristics and qualities?” The following is his […]